Just got an HD telly - also just discovered HD is a bloke thing!

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"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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"An inordinate fondness for beetles" - JBS Haldane.

Hah! Totally OT, but that quotation reminds me of a dictionary
definition I read for coprophilia which went "An undue interest in
faeces." This immediately made me wonder what a "due" interest in
faeces might be!

SteveT

Gastro-enterology?
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"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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"An inordinate fondness for beetles" - JBS Haldane.

Hah! Totally OT, but that quotation reminds me of a dictionary
definition I
read for coprophilia which went "An undue interest in faeces." This
immediately made me wonder what a "due" interest in faeces might be!

Well, for starters, there's a health interest in one's own faeces
(making sure, for example, that there's no sign of bleeding due to
polyps (benign or cancerous) or haemerrhoids or black stools which
indicate internal hemorrhaging higher up the digestive tract).

Another case of 'due interest' would be when on the lookout for the
first signs of those unchewed sweetcorn you swallowed earlier in order
to determine your digestive tract's 'transit time'.

HTH

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"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Gary wrote:
remember most people cannot tell the difference between
scart and RF

Those 'most people' must be registered blind. The difference on a menu or
EPG etc is immediately obvious - before you even watch the first picture.

Quite.

I did not say there was no difference but most people cannot see the
difference and if they can they don't care. Hence the original thread.

In article ,
Gary wrote:
Those 'most people' must be registered blind. The difference on a menu
or EPG etc is immediately obvious - before you even watch the first
picture.

Quite.

I did not say there was no difference but most people cannot see the
difference and if they can they don't care. Hence the original thread.

There's a big difference between 'can't see' and 'don't care'.

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On 26/03/2010 07:17, Mike Henry wrote:
, "Gary"

but most people cannot see the difference

That's the problem. The difference between the lowest possible quality
RF/composite, and full-bandwidth RGB Scart, on a menu or EPG etc is
immediately obvious - before you even watch the first picture. Your
assertion that "most people" wouldn't be able to see such a blinding
difference is implausible.

Surely, he means most people would not be able to see the difference
because most of these people aren't naturally looking for it? Sure if
you sat them down and showed them, they would.

But (in the words of Lauren Cooper)

"Am I bovvered?"

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"Steve Thackery" wrote in message
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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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I wonder why the spellchecker didn't pick it up?

Probably because of the pop group. It also lets through "Slade", "Abba"
and various others which aren't real English words.

I tried beatle again and it complained about the lack of capitalisation.

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Max Demian

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:52:35 -0000, "Col"
wrote:

Paul D.Smith wrote:
...snip...

I sometimes remember happily watching programmes on a 12inch B&W
portable. You become far more discerning as to what is a good
program, and what is simply eye-candy.

Up until about 5 years ago I had an ancient B&W set that gave an
excellent picture and was perfectly watchable.

Yes I inherited an ITT B&W which had a comparatively superb picture.
For eye candy I visisted friends with colour sets, up until their
picture quality improved and I first rented a few then bought a
Trinitron

Strangely my mother can watch any old crap without noticing the lack
of quality but my Ex was much more discerning. She could see flicker
on one of my monitors which I couldn't perceive at all.

In general quality does seem to be a guy thing but there are
exceptions, there are some outstanding female photographers

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:47:00 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

Only a deranged Designer would wire up the retina so that the nerve fibres
block the light path.

They had the blueprint upside down

Seriously though, it's a bizarre system that seems to work in terms of
reducing a bitmap to vector graphics for distribution, then
reconstructing the bitmap from the vectors and filling in the missing
bits

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:02:54 -0000, "Steve Thackery"
wrote:


"Andy Champ" wrote in message
.uk...

"An inordinate fondness for beetles" - JBS Haldane.

Hah! Totally OT, but that quotation reminds me of a dictionary definition I
read for coprophilia which went "An undue interest in faeces." This
immediately made me wonder what a "due" interest in faeces might be!

Watching BBC3 would come close

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:36:17 GMT, Johnny B Good
wrote:

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from "Steve Thackery" contains these words:


"Andy Champ" wrote in message
. uk...

"An inordinate fondness for beetles" - JBS Haldane.

Hah! Totally OT, but that quotation reminds me of a dictionary
definition I
read for coprophilia which went "An undue interest in faeces." This
immediately made me wonder what a "due" interest in faeces might be!

Well, for starters, there's a health interest in one's own faeces
(making sure, for example, that there's no sign of bleeding due to
polyps (benign or cancerous) or haemerrhoids or black stools which
indicate internal hemorrhaging higher up the digestive tract).

"Do you suffer from black tarry stools?"

"Only when I mend my motorbike in the kitchen"